Iconic images: The American soldier

This Veterans Day, let's take a look back at the American soldier.

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After their unit landed in the middle of a Viet Cong staging area, medic Pfc. Andrew J. Brown of Chicago draws his pistol while protecting a wounded U.S. paratrooper from sniper fire in the jungle near Thuong Lang, about 10 miles northeast of Bien Hoa, June 24, 1965. Brown and another medic crawled through the jungle to treat the paratrooper while a live grenade lay nearby.

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After their unit landed in the middle of a Viet Cong staging area, medic Pfc. Andrew J. Brown of Chicago draws his pistol while protecting a wounded U.S. paratrooper from sniper fire in the jungle near Thuong Lang, about 10 miles northeast of Bien Hoa, June 24, 1965. Brown and another medic crawled through the jungle to treat the paratrooper while a live grenade lay nearby.